Garbage Returns With ‘Blood For Poppies’

Love or hate them, Garbage are back after a seven year hiatus and are playing show-and-tell with the first single off of their upcoming full-length, ‘Not Your Kind Of People.’ The rockers have still got it, even if ‘Blood For Poppies’ is a departure from the band’s prior grunge-pop-industrial sound. ‘Supervixen’ Shirley Manson’s unmistakeable seductive vocals haunt alongside Butch Vig’s backbeat in this chilling new wave, almost ska (at times) inspired track that you can hear after the jump.

Manson described ‘Poppies’ as “sort of like an abstract dream” on Garbage’s official website, mentioning that the song was inspired by a story about Opium and the documentary, ‘Restepo.’ She continues, “It’s not literal in any sense whatsoever but It’s a song about disorientation and delusion and the human struggle to stay sane in the face of insanity.”

I think you’d have to eat a few too many poppy seeds just to understand what Shirley is singing in most of the song but after one listen, and then another and another still, it’s growing on me. There’s an energy to the track that doesn’t sound old exactly, but oddly familiar and perfectly acceptable for a summertime, roll down the car windows style jam.

Based on this single, will you be buying the album?  ‘Not Your Kind Of People’ drops on May 14.